The Colossi of Memnon, Thebes

Inscriptions

Written on negative: "A Beato [signed]"

Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Isaacs

Artist: Antonio Beato (British, c. 1825–1903)
Date: c. 1860s
Medium: albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions: Image: 26.4 x 38.3 cm (10 3/8 x 15 1/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 55.9 cm (18 x 22 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photograph
Department: Photography
Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Accession no.: 1992.306

Temple, Egypt
Antonio Beato
c. 1870s · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00008613
Temple of Ramesses II, Abu Simbel
Antonio Beato
c. 1860s · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00012951
Deir el-Medineh, Sacred Barge
Antonio Beato
c. 1870s - 1880 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00013212
View of Aswan - Along the Nile
Antonio Beato
c. 1870s - 1880s · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00013213

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.